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There's a notable dispute brewing around Anthropic's computing arrangement with SpaceX. Elon Musk has been publicly characterizing the deal as short-term and easy to cancel, but SpaceX's own S-one filing tells a different story, describing payments running through May of twenty twenty nine. When a company's founder and its own legal documents disagree, that's worth watching closely.
Shifting to something a little warmer — the sun, quite literally. Researchers publishing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society say our star has been undergoing striking long-term behavioral changes that went undetected for more than a decade. The sun follows a roughly eleven-year magnetic activity cycle, but something outside that pattern is happening, and scientists say they don't yet know why.
And in the AI industry, layoffs continue to reshape the workforce. Wix is cutting roughly twenty percent of its employees, citing pressure from two directions at once — a strong Israeli shekel squeezing its financials, and AI-powered competitors eroding its core website-building business. It's a reminder that AI disruption doesn't spare even the companies trying to embrace it.
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